Self-Reliance Homesteading Festival Showcases Off-Grid Living
Riverbed Ranch residents are hosting their third annual Homesteading Festival from Thursday, June 11 through Saturday, June 13, offering three days of education, demonstrations, tours, and community connection centered on self-reliant living. This year’s keynote speaker is William DeMille, a nationally recognized educator with the Georgics Schoolroom. Georgics education focuses on agriculture, land stewardship, and […]
Utah’s OSR Homesteading Festival Returns to Inspire Greater Self-Reliance
Utah’s first and only off-grid homesteading community, Riverbed Ranch, is proudly hosting the 2025 OSR (Operation Self-Reliance) Homesteading Festival this coming June. This immersive three-day event invites families, backyard homesteaders and gardening enthusiasts to discover a wealth of knowledge for self-reliant living. The event will include engaging presentations, ranch tours and visits with our off-grid […]
Utah’s biggest Off-Grid Community Sets the Standard for Preparedness Living
In a world where unforeseen challenges and emergencies can strike at any moment, one extraordinary Utah community has taken proactive steps to ensure its self-sufficiency and resilience. Nestled away on an old alfalfa farm in the West Desert, far from the uncertainties of mainstream living, the off-grid community of Riverbed Ranch serves as a model […]
Juab County Ranch offers a chance for families to live off-grid through a co-operative community model
Many families in the state are ditching the rat race, rush-hour gridlock, mortgages and utility bills in exchange for life in a rural, cooperative farming community away from all the city’s insanities. Riverbed Ranch is a self-reliant, agricultural community being built in Juab County’s West Desert on an old 1,245 acre alfalfa farm. 125 shareholders […]
Thoughts on Zion – The Two Faces of Humility
As a people interested in fleeing Babylon and building Zion, we need to thoroughly understand the similarities and differences between pride, the foundation of Babylon, and humility, which leads
Thoughts on Zion: Seeing the Two Faces of Pride
If we are truly interested in fleeing Babylon and building Zion, we need to thoroughly understand the similarities and differences between pride, which moves society towards Babylon, and humility
Thoughts on Zion: Replacing Pride with Humility
Along our journey here in this column, we came to conclude that:
1. “Babylon” is any culture that has incorporated pride-based beliefs and customs into its social organizations, such as families,
Thoughts on Zion: Both Babylon & Zion have cultures
The ideas shared here opened my eyes to see Babylon and Zion much more clearly and helped me better understand how to move from the former to the latter.In his General Conference talk in April 20
Thoughts on Zion: Seeing through the lens of humility
Before exploring something both Babylon and Zion have in common, let’s take an even closer look at two conclusions we came to in a previous column: “Pride is the stepping stone to Babylon” and “H
Thoughts on Zion: The Stepping Stones of Pride and Humility
By Jesse Fisher
As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we are under covenant with God to establish Zion. We are also under divine direction to flee Babylon (D&C 133:12